Elmgreen and Dragset
(Danish, b. 1961 and Norwegian, b. 1968)
Short Cut, 2003
Mixed-media installation
Installed, approx: 98 2/5 x 334 7/10 x 118 in. (250 x 850 x 300 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Joseph and Jory Shapiro Fund by exchange.
2005.6
"The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a dam, and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself, and to Manself take back something of the wall, the house the dam; to take hard muscles from the lifting, to take the clear lines and form from conceiving. For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."-Grapes of Wrath
(Danish, b. 1961 and Norwegian, b. 1968)
"The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a dam, and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself, and to Manself take back something of the wall, the house the dam; to take hard muscles from the lifting, to take the clear lines and form from conceiving. For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."-Grapes of Wrath
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